Monthly Archives: May 2012

Update: Bedroom Cabinet Refinishing

posted on May 29, 2012

Well there’s nothing like a quick little project to breeze through and spiff up your house is there? ….. unfortunately I know nothing about that idea. Quick… NEVER, Easy… RARELY, Spiffed up… POSSIBLY! Thank goodness for blogging because I had to go back to figure out when the heck I started this refinishing project…. turns out April 23rd! Good grief, I’m slow. Okay so it only took me 6 weeks minus the two I couldn’t work … so 4 weeks! It ain’t love but it ain’t bad!

I have a million pictures so please excuse all the visuals… ….

Instagram inspired ::: photos from the week

posted on May 27, 2012

Yep, still waiting for the iPhone! Until then, I’m crazy about the look so thought I’d continue with “faking it”. Here’s some photos from “life in the last week”. I’m trying to finish up my bedroom cabinets. Hope to share the progress by Tuesday.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

San Jacinto Building and clock tower downtown. The flag seemed appropriate for Memorial Day. Thanks to all the men and women who serve our country both past and present. We appreciate your service! HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

Another Goode House

posted on May 24, 2012

Yesterday was just another “normal” day at work… full of paperwork, phone calls, listening to other people talk about their broken air conditioners, flat tires, and Memorial Day weekend plans. I didn’t expect it to be any different, but then I get a call from Rebecca. Rebecca is not only an awesome person, but the daughter of one of Rex & Ruth Goode’s best friends (Reminder: Rex and Ruth Goode owned our home and he was the architect) What a nice surprise! She called to ask a favor and to be honest I was sort of stunned…. not because she ….

Cha cha cha changes…

posted on May 23, 2012

I can’t seem to have a thought in my head without breaking out in song! Thank you David Bowie. Changing things in my house is a constant and I’m always doing tiny things that keep my hands and mind busy. Little things start to get on my nerves and I have to cha cha cha change them!

It could be that I’m trying to distract myself from the bedroom cabinet project.. which is almost finished! While I was playing lovely assistant to my husband as he fixed the squeaky shower valve in the bathroom it only made me notice ….

She’s lovely… but she squeaks!

posted on May 21, 2012

It’s always SOMETHING! I guess that comes with home ownership, doesn’t it? There’s always a “to do” list that seems to shrink and grow at the same time.
(add to list — Repair Shower Valve)

So here’s my lovely Danze shower valve with chrome trim. I love her. She batted her eyes at me online and said “buy me, I’m so simple and pretty, buy me”! I fell for it, she was mine. After glowing reviews and 5 stars a plenty… she arrived during our bathroom renovation and was installed end of 2010.

We really don’t use this bathroom much at all… so ….

Help, I’m stuck!

posted on May 17, 2012

After 3 weekends of doing nothing on my bedroom project because of my job, I finally have a weekend to get back on track. I’m at a point in the refinishing of our built-ins where I need to make a decision and just can’t. I’m having such a hard time and Richie tends to pull that “oh, whatever you choose will be fine”, thing. I appreciate his flexibility but it’s not helping me to actually come up with a FINAL decision that I won’t regret later. (ahhhhhhhh!)

So many of you have incredible homes and amazing design eyes… so I need ….

just gonna insta-fake-it

posted on May 14, 2012

I admit, I’m a lover of the Instagram app available on iPhone. Unfortunately I do not currently own one but I’m working on changing that. I think I would have so much fun having a decent camera at my finger tips. There are so many moments when I’m wondering around town and think “if only”. Picture perfect moments pass me by. DANG!

It also doesn’t help that some of my favorite blogs in the past week have featured their Instagram pictures and I’m so JEALOUS! There’s just something about that filtered /vintage look that turns me on. Really that shouldn’t surprise ….

Thrifty Finds – how’s your memory?

posted on May 9, 2012

My last post was pictures of the moon and to be honest I feel like I’ve been on the moon these past 2 1/2 weeks. I’ve been absent from all the things I love and I’m feeling out of sorts. But things are about to improve, as I am FINALLY off the air and our fundraising is over and now I just have to get through the jazz concert we’re hosting this weekend. I’m sure many of you feel the same when I say “I work to live”… never “live to work”. It is a necessity but I’m ready to ….

super moon.. really was

posted on May 5, 2012

I hope you all got a chance to look up in the sky this evening and see the beautiful “Super Moon”. Of course all the hype had me waiting anxiously to see the big glowing sky but really it would have been hard to miss.

It was almost impossible to not notice, as our entire house was flooded with moonlight and the glow was just beautiful. I could see the moon through the trees outside our bedroom window and grabbed my camera to TRY to get some shots.

Obviously I’m a total and complete amateur because I don’t even own a ….

Is it done yet?

posted on May 2, 2012

After starting our re-finishing of the built-in cabinets/dresser in the master bedroom I was feeling really great about how it was going. My plan to get this done in 2 weeks seemed doable. The stripping seemed to be getting the finish off and the sanding was revealing some really beautiful wood under it all. YES, finally a job I could complete and have fabulous before and afters. WHATEVER! Then reality hits. So the answer to is it done yet is simply a sigh of NO, not yet. Unfortunately it’s always something and this time it’s my job slowing me down.